13 FREE Resources to Learn English NOW!

Picture this: You've been  studying English for a while.  

You’ve taken classes here and there, but you  never actually felt really engaged with them.

So, you open your computer, type in  Google "How to Learn English for Free"  

and get about 4,650,000,000 results in less than  one second! The time it would take you to open,  

explore, and make a decision about which resources  to use would be so time-consuming that you think:  

"I'm never gonna learn this way. I better  give up on this. I'll study when I'm able  

to afford a good school" . And then, you are  back in exactly the same place you started.

What’s up everyone, I’m Andrea, your RealLife  English fluency coach. If you've always wanted  

to speak English fluently or make English a  fun part of your day, but you can't seem to  

find the right resources to make it happen, then  you're going to get a lot out of today's lesson.

I'll share with you my favorite FREE websites,  apps, and activities that help learners take  

their English to the next level. You can  choose your favorite ones according to the  

areas you still need to improve. I'll also take  you behind the scenes on how to use our FREE App,  

which was designed for people who want to speak  English in a safe, judgment-free environment and  

connect with cultures from all around the world. Because here at RealLife English we want to  

guide you beyond the classroom to live and  learn and speak English in the real world.  

So hit that subscribe button and bell down  below so you don't miss any of our lessons.

Now, these resources i'm going to share with  you today can complement your studies.It's  

ideal they first choose an area they want to  improve and 2 or 3 resources to help them so  

they don't get overwhelmed trying to do it all  at once. Mastering a language involves a series  

of other skills such as reading, listening,  writing and speaking. With companies adopting  

remote work, asynchronous communication  became a really important skill to have.  

Learning how to write doesn't need to be boring.  Write and Improve is a free tool developed by the  

University of Cambridge. You can choose or create  a task according to your level and after you  

submit your writing, you'll get automatic feedback  on where your writing may need to improve.  

If you are looking for something less  formal, you can join Facebook Groups,  

Forums like Quora, Discord, or Reddit on your  favorite topics - not English learning groups,  

and interact there by asking  questions and sharing ideas. 

You can use these opportunities to make  friends who have the same interests as you  

and you'll see how fluent speakers  communicate while they are writing. 

Reading is your main source of vocabulary  and one of the best ways to learn  

new words and acquire a more advanced vocabulary.  Did you also know that blogs are not dead? Most  

Youtubers also have blogs where  they share bits of their content.  

You can choose to follow the ones that are made  for English learners or the ones about the topics  

you like. And if you are interested in a  foreign culture, most countries have their  

website in English. You can explore them to find  out more about that place and learn vocabulary  

that will be useful when you travel there. If you  have a Kindle, find free ebooks on Amazon. They  

are organized into categories. Many of these books  are classics in the public domain, and feature  

similar cover art. They'll have a button that says  "Buy for Free" on their individual payment pages.

This is a nice way to learn grammar  and collocations intuitively. 

You know that feeling when you know how to  complete a sentence or how to use a certain  

preposition, but you don't know why? You probably listened to it so many  

times before using it actively. As you know, we are big fans of  

podcasts to help you with your listening. So  we publish them twice a week. You can also  

practice your listening with songs on Youtube -  just search [name of the songs and the lyrics]. 

And I also highly recommend the Lyrics Training  website. This is super fun, even I like to do it  

sometimes. There's different levels as well, so  you can challenge yourself as you get a bit more  

used to it or get better at it. And it's a fun  way to learn the lyrics to your favorite songs.

Now I totally understand that this  can be the hardest one to develop.  

You may feel shy always thinking that your  English is not good enough or wondering if  

people will understand you or you even have  the belief that to speak a language you need  

to live in the country where that language is  spoken. So a good idea is to start alone. You  

can start practicing talking about things that  are meaningful to you. The story of your life,  

something that you're interested in, something  you've recently read, watched or seen on the news.  

You can even write down some bullet  points about the topic you choose.  

So just open a new Google Doc, go to tools, voice  typing and change it to English. You should speak  

non-stop for about three minutes. And if you don't  know a word, you can say it in your mother tongue.  

This is a great way to see how you are organizing  your thoughts and which words you still need to  

learn. The tool is not 100 percent accurate but  it does the job of providing some feedback on  

those points. For more ideas, I highly recommend  you watch this lesson. It sounds impossible, but  

believe me, it's not. I use these tips so I don't  forget my Spanish while living here in Brazil.

I know many of you out there for various reasons  are frustrated at not having anyone to speak  

to. That is exactly why we developed  the RealLife App. Now, as promised,  

I'll share with you more about the process  of creating it. Let's start with our CEO  

Justin's testimonial. Justin, how  did the idea for the app come about? 

The main inspiration for the RealLife App  was all the way back to right around 2011,  

when Ethan and I first met. We were private  English teachers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. And  

we had big dreams. And so we were organizing these  English-speaking parties. For at first a few dozen  

of our friends, but then this quickly grew into a  few hundred people. And so we had so many people  

at these parties where we wanted to find a way  to not only help people, kind of mix the party  

up and help people separate from the groups they  came with. But also for people to... have the  

courage to speak, to overcome their shyness. And  we learned a couple things from this, like... One:  

people are very happy and successful to speak  English with non-native speakers. And two:  

English learners are hungry to speak English in  the real world and make friends across cultures.  

And just as we did back then with those parties,  we're doing now with the app. We've been doing a  

lot of product research that is to understand  the frustrations that English learners face,  

to understand the problems they face in order  to propose a solution. So when I was a teenager,  

I was trying to find a way to improve my English  and to practice my English, but I could not find  

a place that was safe enough, that I have people  of the same goal as mine. I tried Facebook groups  

about movies, series, music and sometimes  there was someone that I would become friend  

and then call to each other to speak in English.  And I even tried Omegle (that is not the safest  

method) just because I really wanted to  talk to someone in English. So and that,  

they'll provide me a safe place to connect with  people would really have been a dream come true  

at that time. So, if you're not already using  it, I highly recommend you start now because  

our app is free. You can download it in the  Google Play and Apple App Store, but I'll  

also link it down in the description for you. Here are my tips for when you're using the app: 

Do not worry whether you have an  accent or not. As Amy Chua pointed out:  

It's a sign of bravery. It means you gathered the  courage and the effort to learn another language. 

It's okay to make mistakes. Everyone's  there to practice and learn together. 

If you are afraid of freezing up... there's a solution to this problem  

and it's what we call Survival Phrases. Think of  survival phrases as the pocket version of English.  

They're phrases that you can count on when  you're looking for certain information  

or you need to ask for something. They can  even help you get out of a sticky situation  

and also help you confidently make conversations  and be understood by other English speakers. So  

in this lesson we'll begin by talking about  types of survival phrases that can help you  

facilitate conversation. Then we'll talk  about chunking and learning without grammar  

which is a method for learning vocabulary.  That's related to survival phrases.